You want teams, players, coaches, executives and everyone else involved to be doing everything they can to win.

And they have exploited something that is out of proportion, which is that a shot that is not 50% harder is worth 50% more points.

They have exploited that to a place where it makes no logical sense not to do it.

So you cannot tell the team shoot fewer threes because it would be malpractice to do so.

It would be a breach of your fiduciary responsibility.

So what do they have to do?

They have to change the rules in the same way that pro football has multiple times changed rules in the same way that might Major League Baseball, National Hockey League and the NBA itself has changed rules multiple times.

They have done so in order to make the game more watchable, more competitive or more.

Whatever it is they want to be more of no one should have a problem with that and I certainly don't so let's solve this problem.

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He's genius.

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Brilliant.

Exactly So, hambo.

If you read the Kevin Hart of its Peace, he gives one suggestion of a solution that I don't like.

Tell everybody what that is, the one about the limitation.

So one solution this is one that executives have even suggested is to cap the amount of three pointers that a team is allowed to take.

So you specify the number.

You cannot exceed it.

And beyond that, any shot that you shoot beyond the three point arc would only count for two.

So there's a certain number of threes you can get in a game you can shoot from wherever you want, but only I'm just making this up 20 times, 15 times 25 times whatever it is.

Only that number of times with that shot be worth three points.

I don't love it.

I don't love it.

It feels contrived.

It feels like something you're following now.

Do you really want Jeff Van Gundy explaining to you?

Well, they've already made their 23 so From this point forward, you'll have a little graphic at the bottom of your screen.

Three's remaining.

I guess we would get used to that if they did it.

It's not a bad idea.

I don't like it.

It feels contrived.

The best solution feels like college overtime.

I hate college football's over time because it feels contrived.

It doesn't feel like the game anymore.

We're doing something else, and that's what I don't like about that.

And that's what I don't like about this.

To me, The answer to this is so simple, so simple.

Move the line back, just move it out.

The shot is just much too easy.

So long as teams comfortably hit 30% of their shots, they will never stop.

Push the line back, get that number into the twenties.

The moment the first digit on that shot is a two instead of a three.

They will stop doing it because geniuses like Daryl Morey aren't trying to make the game boring.

They're trying to win.

They need to make this change because this is not what the game was intended to be.

It is an impediment to the watchability of it.

It has changed too many things about it.

Fundamentally, it has taken too many players out of the game i e.

Big men.

Their value has diminished to next to nothing.

And the biggest one, the first one they have to take away is the corner.

Three.

Hambo gave me this statistic.

The league is shooting 40% on corner threes.

Just think about that for a moment.

That means for every 100 possessions if you take a corner three, you will score 100 and 20 points.

You would have to shoot 60% from inside the arc in order to equal that.

Shooting.

60% is what NBA players do 4 ft from the basket and closer.

So the minute you're 5 ft away from the basket, envision what 5 ft is the minute you're 5 ft away from the basket.

You were better off shooting a corner three than you are taking a shot from where you currently are.

It's just math.

That's all analytics are.

We hate the word, but that's what it is.

It's just math, and the people running these sports are math people Now.

When Daryl Morey and Charles Barkley were fighting on TV all the time.

Charles wasn't wrong.

But he is wrong.

The math wins.

Math is an absolute.

So is science, by the way.

But let's not have that conversation right now.

These are not things that are open to opinion or interpretation.

The math is the math.

60% is 60% 40% is 40%.

And as long as players can make these shots, you watch the All Star Game the other night.

Steph Curry and Damian Lillard are comfortably hoisting up 47 ft jump shots.

They're not heaving the ball.

They're shooting it in perfect form.

So we got to move that back.

Now.

How far back is something that we have to figure out?

Amber, What were you telling me?

What is the 29 ft?

The break even point here is 29 ft, meaning at that distance.

That's when the the average field goal percentage goes below 33%.

But that's that's not a good stat, it seems to me, because people aren't taking that shot.

Normally, people aren't taking a lot of 25 footers, right?

That's just not the way these things are going.

People aren't shooting from 4 ft behind the line, 3 ft behind the law.

There are more than 1500 shots this season taken between 28 30 ft.

A lot of shots, but a lot of those those are the particularly long ones.

How many shots were taken at 24 ft 25 ft just behind the line?

Which is to say, I want and I still want the shot part of the game.

I'm not taking the shot out of the game, but we just need to knock the percentage down a little bit.

When the shot is just too easy, everyone can make it.

If you just knock that number down a dial it back, just a couple of percent, it will make all the difference.

The league shoots 38% between 24 25 ft.

It's still pretty high 38% so even that might not be enough.

But I'm willing to try.

I'm willing to start there.

I'm not talking about moving it back to 29 ft.

Don't get me wrong, that's crazy.

But if you just move it back, let's just start by moving it back a foot and see what happens.

You're still going to get Steph Curry.

You're still going to get James Harden.

You're still going to get paid.

Melilla.

You're still going to get that.

I'm not taking that out of the game, but you just can't have that be the best shot in every situation.

You just cannot have teams when they're running a three on one break, flaring to the corners because they want to take a corner three instead of an uncontested layup.

That's just not basketball.

And I have to believe that people who run this sport agree with that.

If you love the sport, if you if you have paid attention to it for longer than the last four years, you know I'm right.

So to me, that's the solution.

Just start moving the line back until we figure it out.

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